Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-03-04
MINOR NOTES.


tax returns Of 30 or 80 millionaires of that
city, in which they rate their personal prop
erty anywhere from 5000 TO $1,000. j. q.
Coleman. who has IN immense four-story
Queen Anne establishment with stables,
swears in all his horses at $40, carriages at
the same sum, piano at $50, and household
and office furniture at $500. This is fair
sample of the Inventories, and our Vermont
evasions Of the tax laws are huniiatingly
insignificant by comparison.
Col Fred Grant is now spending an hour
a lay taking down his mothers reminis-
cences of his father, and has filed 1900
pages with memoranda. He has also his
fathers diary, and about 200 Of the love
letters written to Mrs. Grant during their
engagement, very practical he says, and
forming what is undoubtedly the most ex-
act and accurate history of the Mexican
war ever made
1t is said that Jacob Sharp, who put
through the Broadway surface railroad, is
next to he put on trial, and there is "A chance
that he may 20 to Join at Sing Sing some Of
the hoodlc aldermen whom he bribed,
DR.. Wm. A. Hammond is to contribute to
the Forum for March an article on "Mystc
rious Disappearance, ~ in which he will show
that many of the persons who so strangely
disappear in our large cities are subjects of
a temporary loss of personal identity "a not
unusual form Of mental alteration and he
will cite many interesting eases in support
of this view
President Eliot Of Harvard college strong
ly favur~ the plan Of abrdging the four
year, course in the college for those stu.
dent. who are intending to take full COURSE
in the medical or law schools.
Miss Elaine Goolulc, young. brilliant and
beautiful, has become heroine 10y attempt
inL to educate and therefore TO civilize the
Sioux Indians at the Lower Brule agency in
Dakota, having prepared herself by course
of study at Gen. Armstrong; school in
Hampton
DR. f.. d. kittoe, once a member of Gen.
Grants staff maeniiies the high degree of
moral courage which enabled the general to
overcome h, desire for strong drink. Col.
Fred Grant declares that his father, in the
mtor period of his life wa. almost Il total
nb-taucr because even two glasses of wine
were sure to 90 10 hi, head.
Tn. >23.OOOO 600 given by Senator Stan
ford of California for new university in
that state aud large sum for the Lothrop
memorial now being erected in Albany, are
81 90, 10, t,1,t.
pernntural visitations from his dead son.
Mr. and MIR Stanford have both seen the
appearances it is said, and an eminent d-
vine whom they consulted is credited with
promptly advising the large donations.
The national executive Of the Knights If
Labor ha, bought a 81, 900 house in Phila-
dplpha for headquarters. 1t i, to he hoped
that the laboring men whose weekly % cent
assessments have furnished the funds for
the purchase are pleased with the invest
ment
For admission rs a student to West Point,
application must be made to the Congress
man of ones district or to the President,
and the applicant must be under . years
physical condition and his familiarity with
what Is usually taught in the common
schools,
Mr. Bonner says in the New York Iedg
er that Maud :. now drinks about twenty
quarts of water day, and could not live
without it. But some one may ask
Wouldn't she drink beer, ale or Bourbon
No She loathes such things, and, notwith
standing she was reared in Kentucky, per
forms all her great featS ON strictly tenn
perance principles Mr.. Bonner, by tn,
way. ma, lately refused AN offer of 800,
900 for the mare and says that she cant be
bought at any price.
The London Times advises that no tim,
be lost in eifecting settlement Of the fish
erie, dispute between the United States an,
Canada before the fishing season opens, he
cause after It's commencement the disput,
may Ice complicated by fresh seizures %
fishing vessels, The Times sensibly add
that the Canadians, a. we'll rs their neigh
hors must lac prepared to waive some q
the rights for which they have been stick
ling.
The commissioners of the New York stat,
reservation at Niagara falls say in their re
port that il is found that the average reces
sion along the contour of the Horseshoe
fall has been since 1912 about PA feet pc
year At the point where the acute ang
is formed the recession from 1872 10 49,
was over IA hundred feet, and from 1870 Il
1856 more than two hundred feet. The re
ccssion of the American fall since 1912 ha
been slight The heights of the falls abov
the level of the water in the river was de
ter1nined by the engineers of the Unite
States geological survey, Aug H. 1856
as follows American fall, 1877 feet Horse
shoe fall, los feet No measures are pro
posed by the commissioners to make tn
rapids more navigable for young wOmel
and men headed up in barrels,
An amendment to the woman suifrag
bill was introduced in the New York legiS
lature the other day, providing that ON an'
after the first day of January, 1885 al
bachelors attaining the age of 30 years
competent TO provide for "A partner, yet ali
staining from entering into the sacred bond
of matrimony, shall he subject to forfeit
ure of oue-quarter of their annual income
which amount shall be collected by the stat
comptroller, and distributed eluitabl
among the widows and orphans of the state
Sad to relate. this amendment was ignu
! .t..t. Ia 81 4